Deborah Tannen

it the author of the passage Deborah Tannen states that men and women have difficulties when having conversations, because men and women’s approach to a conversation differ drastically. believe that while she may be correct some of her ideas are more based in stereotypes than in reality when it comes to her statement that men and women are different when it comes to having a conversation. I will be using the show Rick and Morty to support my claim that Deborah Tannen is Partially correct in her…

Deborah Tannens essay “Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk To Each Other?” offers many explanations as to why men and women converse differently. Tannen concluded from her own research that the linguistic differences, body language, and silence in opposing settings have an equal contribution as to why the genders communicate differently among groups of all the same gender and groups of opposing gender. While women often add their input on a situation men find…

several arguments that have brought up about the issue of differences that exist between men and women. Some of these elements that are often noted are simply assertions while others are based on scientific facts. In ‘Sex, Lies and Conversation’ by Deborah Tannen and ‘We’ve got the Dirt on Guy Brains’ by Dave Barry, some of these elements have been pointed out. In Barry’s point was based on housework, but the Tannen’s point was based on communication. On the aspect of comparing and contrasting…

In 1990, Deborah Tannen wrote the article “Sex, Sighs, and Conversation”. In her article, she explains to the audience why men and women can not communicate. The author primarily supported the main idea, by telling a story, giving examples, and statistics. The author gave an example of when the woman was chatting with the man that “why do not we ask someone?” The man was saying, not for the first time, “I am sure it is around here somewhere. I will just try this street.” In my opinion, the…

In her article, “’But What Do You Mean?’ Woman and Men in Conversation”, by Deborah Tannen she discusses the difference in talking between men and women. The distinction between how women communicate and how men communicate. The difference is striking because one does not realize how different women and men talk unless it is revealed to them somehow such as reading this article. Tannen started by apologies. Women apologize way more than men. Women apologize sometimes when they have not even…

women tend to communicate differently, which causes issues between the male and female bond. Deborah Tannen wrote an article called “Sex, Lies, and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other.” She talks about the difference in the chatty conversation women want and how verbal communication is not necessary for men. The bonding process is dissimilar for male and female. Tannen makes three valid points during the article: The difference in stance and standpoint during…

The article “Sex, Lies and Conversation” by Deborah Tannen illustrates several points about the differences and similarities between the conversational techniques of men and women of varying ages. In her article, she mentions how men and women have different expectations of what a conversationalist is supposed to do, one of them being that women “assume a conversationalist's job is to express agreement and support” (para 19) meanwhile men “see their conversational duty as pointing out the other…

Throughout a person’s lifetime, they are like to have faced inequality. Whether it is inequality for race, gender or beliefs, inequality is certainly inedible. In the “Equal Discrimination” passage, Deborah Tannen describes a problem in which gender is not a factor. However, in the “Unequal Remedies” passage, Tannen explains why the remedy to the problem is a gender issue. These passages go into detail on why a speaker struggles to bring their message across the audience. She claims on how there…

comes to the art of communication. In Deborah Tannen’s essay, “But What Do You Mean?”, she describes the different communication variations between men and women. My communication style conforms very accurately to the male gender as described by Tannen because I communicate very directly, give critiques, and like to joke around. Foremost, when my wife and I have conversations I am often very direct. I say what is on my mind, although perhaps I should not. As Tannen describes “… the…

Summary: “Why Does the Taking Here?” In Deborah Tannen’s article “Why Does the Taking Here?” published The Washington Post, she discusses current research that men and women who talks more. The article demonstrates there are differences between women and men that the terms of when and where they speak. Tannen claims that these new studies about women and men talks, its more focus on counts the word that they use. She argues that this is not right research because it did not consider how each…